TJP V59-16 04-21-05 pl6-17 4/19/05 5:53 PM Page 17 -e April 21,2005 Passover Issue Texas Jewish Post 17 Wise parents master annual fundraiser Score it a hole in one for The Wise Academy Parents' Association after bringing 140 guests to their biggest annual fundraiser of the school year and the first Masters Miniature Golf Tournament and Dinner Dance on Saturday night. Some creativity and hard work gave Temple Emanu-El's Tobian Auditorium a dual identity for the evening. Balloon-festooned dinner tables and 150 silent auction items filled the north end of the hall, while a portable 12 hole mini-golf course attracted a stream of golf putters to the south side. Event Chair Jeff Lust and Par- ents' Association Co-Presidents Sharon Balaban and Kristyle Solomon were supported by com- mittee members Julie Raffkind, Liz Bleiberg, Steve Enda, Mireille Allen, Jeanette Herzmark, Debbie Nie- derman, Sharon Redd and Ruth Spirer and Head of School Dr. Caren Edelstein. The live auction gave new hom...

TJP V59-16 04-21-05 pl8-20 4/19/05 5:43 PM Page 19 -e April 21,2005 Passover Issue Texas Jewish Post 19 Doing the Passover shuffle: Matzah versus wine, via iPod By Rabbi Joshua Hammerman STAMFORD, Conn., (JTA) — As Passover approaches this year, I find myself particularly conflicted. I am usually a big fan of matzah, that perfect embodiment of stabil- ity and steadfastness, that essence of uniformity and flatness. Matzah never changes. Put a box of Manischewitz in a time capsule, and in 1,000 years it will taste as fresh as the day it was made. Matzah is indelible. Wherever it goes, it stays; whether that be on the dining room rug, the school cafe- teria or the human digestive system. That's why it is such a powerful visual aid in retelling the story of the Exodus. You can't avoid it. Its crumbs are everywhere! Matzah is the symbol of planned perfection. If the operative word for Passover is "order" — seder in Hebrew — matzah is quintessen- tially controlled; scrutinized closely fro...

TJP V59-16 04-21-05 pl8-20 4/19/05 5:45 PM Page 20 20 Texas Jewish Post Passover Issue April 21,2005 Calendar Wednesday, April 27 Jewish - Does it Make a Difference? 11 a.m. Elvira and Dr. Mihai Nadin posed this question to hundreds of Jews from all walks of life around the world, and wrote a book based on the unique and often unexpected responses. The Nadins return as guest speakers in this install- ment of the JCC Senior Adult Current Issues series. Aaron Family JCC 7900 Northaven Rd, Dallas Thursday, April 28 Redesigning Your Career 1 p.m. Mitch Jacobs, Career Management Counselor with Jewish Family Service, will guide "career changers" and job seekers on how to expand their career opportunities and uncover potential alternative occupations and opportuni- ties. Cost is $40, with only advance registrations taken and limited enroll- ment. A free workbook will be provided. For more information, contact Mitch Jacobs, (972) 437-9950. Jewish Family Service 5402 Arapaho Rd., Dallas Tues...

TJP V59-16 04-21-05 p21-24 4/19/05 5:55 PM Page 21 April 21,2005 Passover Issue Texas Jewish Post 21 in Brief Can bariatric surgery alone lead to that svelte look? As more Americans opt for bariatric surgery to help achieve massive weight loss, the number of follow-up plastic surgery procedures to rid patients of excess skin left after the initial surgery also is increasing. Body contouring surgeries needed for patients to attain optimal weights and body shapes after bariatric surgery usually number at least two, and often three or four. These proce- dures are considered major, invasive surgeries - unlike the image often painted by reality television, says Dr. Jeffrey Kenkel, vice chairman of plastic surgery at UT Southwestern Medical Center. "I don't think people always realize that they will have all that extra skin left," he says. "They've lost the weight, but they still look in the mirror and feel like they're fat." "Patients who are obese and con- sidering bariatric surgery nee...

TJP V59-16 04-21-05 p21-24 4/19/05 5:56 PM Page 22 -e 22 Texas Jewish Post Passover Issue April 21,2005 Torah Portion Parshat Achrai Mot Shabbat Hagadol: Leviticus 16:1-18:30 EFRAT, Israel - This is one of those special years when the day directly preceding Passover (the 14th day of the Hebrew month of Nissan) falls out on Shabbat. During ordinary times and under ordinary circumstances, the day preceding Passover is by far the most hectic of our entire Jewish calendar year: the evening before is the final search with a candlelight to ferret out any bit of leavening (chametz) which may still remain in the house, a por- tion of chametz is then put away for the following morning meal which must be concluded by the end of the fourth hour of the day (approxi- mately 9:30 a.m.), and then comes the final act of the burning of chametz as the symbol of the destruction of evil. Chametz, is after all, fermented and puffed-up matzah, thereby serving as a symbol of pride, materialism and hedonis...

TJP V59-16 04-21-05 p25-28 4/19/05 6:05 PM Page 28 -e 28 Texas Jewish Post Passover Issue April 21,2005 Around the Town with Rene Checkin' in with the mishpacha Like most of us, Corrine Jacobson enjoys her family. Recently she and her son, Ed Bond, went to Bloom- ington, Ind. to visit his daughter and her granddaughter Whitney, at Indiana University in honor of her upcoming college graduation. After that, Corrine was in San Francisco for her granddaughter Audrey Rae Jacobson's first birthday. Audrey's parents are Grant and Janine Jacobson. While in the "City by the Bay" Corrine also visited with her 'r ■*/ J L ?'9> Ari Bond, Grant Jacobson, Audrey Jacobson & Corrine Bond grandson Ari Bond, and daughter-in- law Eleanora Bond's daughter and family, Heidi and Herb Benenson and their young one, Jena. Corrine will spend the Passover holiday with her sister Maxine Newlander in Florida. Also Florida-bound for the holi- days is Elsie Blum, while Esther Rosen traveled to the West Coas...

TJP V59-16 04-21-05 p29-32 4/19/05 6:07 PM Page 29 April 21,2005 Passover Issue Texas Jewish Post 29 from old newspapers and documents found only after her mother's death, Naava brings untold stories to life with stirring narrative, distinctive humor and the haunting authentic songs written in the Ghetto by her lyricist uncle, Leyb Rosenthal, especially for her mother to sing on the Ghetto stage. Dr. Javier Smolarz of Congrega- tion Ahavath Sholom will sing a cantorial solo. The evening is sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Fort Worth and Tarrant County, Brite Divinity School and TCU Jewish Studies Program, Martin Hochster Memorial Post #755-Jewish War Veterans, The National Conference for Community and Justice, TCU Hillel/ University Ministries, Congregation Ahavath Sholom, Beth-El Congregation, Con- gregation Beth Shalom, and private community sponsors. For more infor- mation, please call the Federation office at (817) 569-0892. The event is open to the public, free of charge, ...

TJP V59-16 04-21-05 p29-32 4/19/05 10:07 PM Page 30 -e 30 Texas Jewish Post Passover Issue April 21,2005 Columnists In My Mind's I Let Pesach begin Here comes Passover 2005! What a good time to look back on other Pesachs and relive some earlier happy memories. For me, it all begins with a bottle of Slivovitz. On our huge extended family's extended seder table when I was growing up, there was always a bottle of Slivovitz. Very little of it ever got drunk; certainly no one who ever took a drink ever did! In the pantry closet of the old family home, where an uncle and aunt of mine still live to this day, there is such a bottle, sitting on a shelf. I wouldn't be surprised if it were the very same bottle of my childhood memories... A shot of Slivovitz will give you a jolt, all right. But myZeyde got his jolt from the horseradish he made himself, every year, also to grace the Seder table. He would buy the root, grate it, stain it with beet juice, and set it aside to "age" until he was sat...

TJP V59-16 04-21-05 p29-32 4/19/05 6:08 PM Page 31 -e April 21,2005 Recipes Passover Issue Texas Jewish Post 31 New ways to enjoy old favorites There are some foods that are almost always reserved to the week of Pesach and special holidays. Matzah brie is one that quickly comes to mind. While some of us may eat matzah from time to time during the year (even buying it when it's not "the season"), most people just don't think of it as a year-round food. For that reason, we tend not to prepare matzah brie many other times of the year. For other holidays, we might eat matzah-ball soup and gefilte fish, though it's almost always on the table for Pesach. And while we like it all - from soup to fish to tzimmes to brie - many cooks are always looking for new ways to prepare old favorites. The most adventurou s will risk it all by serving new foods at the first seder. They'll change the gefilte fish, serve dif- ferent matzah balls (with ingredients people are not accustomed to), and forget t...

TJP V59-17 04-28-05 p01-04 4/26/05 2:36 PM Page 2 -e Texas Jewish Post Passover Issue April 28,2005 Behind the Headlines Jews welcome new pope, and hope that he builds on John Paul's legacy By Chanan Tigay and Rachel Pomerance NEW YORK (JTA) — As the regal red curtains were pulled aside, clearing the way for the still- unidentified new pope to emerge on the balcony of the Vatican Basilica and offer a blessing to church faithful, many Jews joined the world's 1 billion Catholics in holding their collective breath. The Christians were excitedly anticipating their Holy Father's arrival, eager for someone to fill the gap left when John Paul II, who served as pope for more than a quarter-century, died on April 2 at 84. Jews, too, were awaiting the new pope's arrival — and wondering what his ascendancy would mean for them. Would he promote Jewish-Catholic relations as zeal- ously as his predecessor? Would he turn his attention instead to mending fences between Catholics and Muslims? Would ...

TJP V59-17 04-28-05 p01-04 4/26/05 2:38 PM Page 3 April 28,2005 Passover Issue Texas Jewish Post heir dialogue tries building on Holocaust s lessons Unlikely pair collaborates: Son of German survivors and Richard Wagner's great-grandson By Ste\'e Israel Staff Writer DALLAS—One is the great- grandson of anti-Semitic music composer Richard Wagner, his family roots intertwined in the heinous acts of Hitler's Third Reich. The other is the son of Holocaust survivors, a man whose ears still ring with his father's accounts of atroci- ties their forebears endured. Yet Gottfried Wagner and Abraham Peck - seemingly opposites - are collaborating to constructively channel the anguish that spills from their conflicting backgrounds. "We are not trying to achieve rec- onciliation. Only the victims, themselves, can reconcile with the victimizers," says Peck. "I can't forgive you for something your father, or your grandmother or great-uncle, or your great-grandfather did...But what I can do is work ...